"Another Poem About The Heart"
The semester is coming to a close and I can not wait to catch up with my blog! Meanwhile, while I getting ready for another day of class tomorrow I ran across the essay I wrote last semester in response to the poem below. In light of some bizarre events here lately I am posting this and plus it gives me an excuse to post on my blog! Hope you enjoy!! Another Poem About the Heart - Jenn Habel When the floor drops out, as it has now, you cannot hear the squirrel on the wire outside your window, the wheels spinning on the road below. You want only pity and are presented with the unbelievable effrontery of a world that moves on. But wait: this is not the person you are. You're the kind of person who sits in dark theaters crying at the collarbones that curve across the dancers' chests, at the proof of a perfection they represent; a person who goes out walking in a four-day drizzle, sees a pot of geraniums and is seized, overcome by how they can bring ...